Judge rejects Apple's injunction against Samsung

Apple's most recent bid for a permanent injunction to stop Samsung selling phones that infringe on the US-firms patents has been rejected by a US judge.

The case relates to a US court’s decision in May when a judge and jury found that Samsung had infringed on three of Apple patents awarding the firm nearly $120m in damages, significantly less than the $2.2bn it was seeking.

US District Judge Lucy Koh of San Jose, California denied Apple's request to because she said that Apple had not ‘satisfied its burden of demonstrating irreparable harm and linking that harm to Samsung's exploitation of any of Apple's three infringed patents.’